Knute Rockne Sports Quotations

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.

If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

If I flop, let 'em pan me.

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.